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Even still, a Power Herb Dactyl can wreck a lot of pokemon. I use one, but not as a lead. After i KO something with Sky Attack, i can use tailwind while the opponent revenge kills it (as it is pretty frail). i just never expected it to drop that low.

can we remove the 10char rule this post would be so much better if it were just me bolding that

Played RU a few times and sharpedo misses a little power there never defeated more than 2 pokemons...
but primeape is pretty good there... I also succeeded using muk effectively
RU is like a lite UU 4gen tier it gives even NU pokemon a chance there so no pokemon is forgotten...

Originally Posted by Professor Oak

Only two things are infinite, the universe and the amount of zubat in caves, and I'm not sure about the former.

So yeah, Durant's been banned. The OP's been updated to reflect this. I also added DrizzleSwim which I forgot the first time.

Which kind of sucks, since I was about to build an RU team with Durant as one of the main focuses. ): I guess I'll have to go Crustle, or something.

As I said earlier, I'm going to be creating an RU team really soon (after the 2012 International Tournament), so this thread's going to be very important.

What are the primary threats of the RU tier?

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Yeah, Feraligatr is amazing right now. It's cool in a number of ways, from great bulk, great power, and good coverage. It hits everything in RU neutrally except for Ferroseed with Return and Waterfall. Aqua Jet is cool since after a Swords Dance you can hit most faster threats except for Sceptile. It also sets up on Qwilfish, which is really common and is most teams answer to a lot of physical threats. I wish I had a chance to use it with Durant since most of their counters are dealt with by the other.

hm. Feraligatr. Never thought of that. That works! Especially since Feraligatr was my first Pokemon ever, so. Nostalgia ftw!

So, a Luxray, Beheeyem/Mushaarna, and Feraligatr team good so far?

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hm. Feraligatr. Never thought of that. That works! Especially since Feraligatr was my first Pokemon ever, so. Nostalgia ftw!

So, a Luxray, Beheeyem/Mushaarna, and Feraligatr team good so far?

As much as I love Luxray, what does it have against Manetric or Electivire? While Intimidate is good, I think that the mentioned two would do job on team better. That aside, what is your opinion on Crawdaunt? As for me I love it. It's slow and frail, but 2xSTABs is something. Access to Dragon Dance is something too, but it is hard to set up. Will it be The Sea Terror of RU or will it be the left out crab in front of Sharpedo? Discuss! What do you think? What sets have you been running successfully? What team support does it need and everything else RU related!

Anyways, the OP has been updated. Claydol, Gligar, Honchkrow, and Sharpedo have all moved on to bigger and better things, while we received nothing new. On the other end, Charizard, Ludicolo, and Sawsbuck have dropped to NU while Mesprit has joined the ranks of RU.

This is gonna spice up the metagame dramatically. Claydol was a great Pokemon for stall teams, providing both Stealth Rock and Rapid Spin while resisting EdgeQuake and Fighting. Gligar was a top physical wall, one of the few that had reliable recovery. A lot of things ran things such as Ice Punch or HP Ice just to beat it. Honchkrow was the tier's top wallbreaker, and also ran a deadly SubRoost set that required you to have a Steel on every team. And last but not least, Sharpedo was the best late-game cleaner in the metagame, and even though it was deemed not broken it still left the tier by way of UU usage.

As for changes that I've seen while playing, you should probably run ThunderPunch on all your Medichams and Hitmonchans, as the two major reasons to use Ice Punch are gone. This instead opens you up to hit things like Qwilfish and Slowking, although hitting Moltres on the switch is also cool. SubPunch Aggron is good right now, since Tangrowth doesn't switch in as CB Head Smash 2HKOes guaranteed with Stealth Rock. The things that can take CB Head Smash don't like taking Focus Punches, and vice versa. One last thing, is that a lot of things around 80 base speed tended to run just enough to beat Adamant Honchkrow (Hitmonchan, Feraligatr, Kabutops), so now they''ll need to find something else to want to outspeed. I've been basing my EVs around max speed Omastar, since you never want that setting up and it can hit pretty hard right off the bat. Anyways, discuss your experiences in the new metagame. Please stay away from theorymonning in this thread, although this is Serebii.

I have a suggestion. Maybe to the OP you could add what pokemon were banned this past round. It'd get the word out more clearly for people tha looking through the list if they can use these pokemon. This might help to prevent some players fromgoing into RU matches such as for SBF or somethin with these pokemon. I'm pretty sure all that was banned were: Claydol , Honchcrow, Gligar, and Sharpedo.

Yep we should ban baton pass, and weather too. Oh and Trick Room, I'm tired of having to worry about Trick Room all the time. Just ban the move Trick Room, and prankster, it's broken. Ban all status moves on prankster users, they're too cheap. Oh and ban Probopass to it's so cheap. Just ban everything except Magikarp with splash.

Well, actually Blaziken isn't really Uber because some people whined about how they were getting owned by it. I mean, it doesn't stand a chance in the Uber enviroment.

Water/Ice coverage is decent, but it leaves you walled pretty badly by Pokemon like Slowking and Poliwrath. Since Roar doesn't really seem to be doing anything in particular, I'd throw Return on there to balance out the coverage. In addition, you could run Waterfall over Ice Punch. This will still leave you walled by Ferroseed, but it will also give you a much more powerful STAB attack.

You could run Psycho Shift over Shadow Ball and Flame Orb over Leftovers for the classic Sigilyph set, which is honestly one of the best RU stallbreakers there ever was. Besides that, Sigilyph might appreciate HP Fighting over Shadow Ball to nail Steel and Dark types, but that will leave you hopelessly walled by Spiritomb. Flame Orb + Psycho Shift will let you come out on top against Spiritomb, though.

Mega Punch just doesn't look like it's helping in any particular way. I'd just go with Hammer Arm or Focus Punch. Both get the Iron Fist boost, and Hammer Arm is more reliable. Focus Punch can be very useful if you predict a switch to something like Ferroseed or Magneton, which might switch in to take a Shadow Punch or Stone Edge.

Quick tip: Gallade loves Shadow Sneak, so I'd definitely run that over Night Slash. Most BU Gallade sets I've seen are much more defensively oriented, but I guess an offensive BU set could work too. I'd still run Leftovers instead of Lum Berry, though.

I just noticed it has regenerator as an abiility. That could help it. Stealth Rocks is what gives it anything from not being outclassed by Slowking though other than that Slowking is a much better choice.

I just noticed it has regenerator as an abiility. That could help it. Stealth Rocks is what gives it anything from not being outclassed by Slowking though other than that Slowking is a much better choice.

Yeah. But Corsola has favoritism and Rocks going for him! Plus, when paired with my other members, they have good coverage.